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I would absolutely love to live in a timeline where we didn't abandon space exploration, so I'm there.

It's a very underrated serie. One of the best shows to date.

Thanks for doing this video on "For All Mankind". I've heard good things about the series.

The world for all mankind would be so much greater if Worf was allowed to win poker games again. Thank you Orange River for bringing this to our attention.

apple does a terrible job promoting its shows. I never knew this show existed, but now I want to watch it

Too early to tell, but I dare say, that thumbnail switch was a good idea lol. Jokes aside, This seems like a super neat show that I may have to check out. Also, I like the fact that it's a longer video and that you were outside for some of it. I have no idea why that made me happy, but it did haha.

Ok, for new ppl getting into the show it starts slow first season but wait it out. It gets so damn good.

My favorite part of the show is the nuclear power. Like, they don't get all NIMBY and surprise surprise global warming is just solved like it's nothing.

FAM is one of the best sci-fi shows I've ever watched.

Hi Bob!

One of the early changes in the characters of historical people was in how Mike Collins was portrayed during their version of Apollo 11. After the dicey landing, while Houston couldn't communicate with the LM, "For All Mankind" has Collins stating that he had gone over it with the mission planners before they left, and he was NOT coming home alone. They have him insisting that they either find Neil and Buzz, or they could say sayonara to the entire crew. Whereas, in real life, in his autobiography, Collins wrote of his actual perspective on the prospect -- that if Neil and Buzz failed to return from the landing attempt, "I am coming home, forthwith. But I will be a marked man for life, and I know it." To me, this was one of the biggest shifts in an historical character that the writers created. Later on in the series, altered events and the introduction of more fictional characters made such changes a lot rarer.

15:50 , small correction but Starship uses methane no Hydrogen

It's the Star Trek prequel you never knew you wanted.

I presume, the Jamestown mention in The Expanse is Naren Shankar's way to honor his friendship with Ron D Moore. Since, they are good friends since Star Trek days and they even tried to develop a TV show together after Star Trek and before BSG, Ron talked about this somewhere. And The Expanse is known for a lot of references for the pop cultural things they like.

I never knew this show existed. GG Apple, just keep this stuff a secret.

Great video! Seriously one of the best shows of the last 30 years. I'm pretty excited to see what happens in season 5. Word on the street is that Ron Moore wrote it as a 7 season arc. So fingers crossed!

I like the concept of For All Mankind, the visuals, the realistic progression of the technology, the movement forward on equality and society, but for me the melodrama was tedious to watch and I haven't seen any episodes passed season 4. The Expanse is top of the heap for me

Great summary of the show so far. The points of early divergence were especially interesting.

Thanks for all your hard work man!

Hell yes! Glad you're covering this show.

Very excellent work, as always! Many thanks - much appreciated!

can't wait to watch this!! I haven't finished the series but wow, S1 was awesome. S2 is really good so far.

I imagine their "internet" is closer to what we had in the 80s and 90s. Honestly, direct dial bulletin boards and forums, with the addition of Usenet and d-mail is all the Internet we really ever needed

"We come in peace for all mankind" ... in the middle of a cold war pissing contense

This show is absolutely wonderful. It's the sort of niche sci-fi that appeals to this old Star Trek riddled brain, and I hope that Moore gets his 7 seasons. The attention to detail is phenomenal, and im so glad that you've pointed out things I've never noticed before. Im not sure if I'd want to live in that world, but I hope that we can achieve some of the things we've seen so far.

I love this show, I'm so glad you are covering it.

Glad to see more reviews of this Alt History Sci-Fi/Drama

Great video. I don't think the series could work as a star trek prequel as Danny mentions the tv show and ensuring her grandson will be a trekkie.

One small bit from season four of For All Mankind is that you can see that both the GBA and PSP exist. Which, seeing as that was a year before it was released in our world. Opens a lot of questions up. Or was lazy set dressing, your call! The point is that the events in question happens during 2003. You can see it when a shipment of black market items makes it down for the crew at Happy Valley. This is interesting, as the PSP was released in Japan in late 2004, then later in 2005. Which means either the PSP was getting a more larger release earlier, or someone scored a Japanese only released item at release for it to be sent to Mars. Since both the GBA and PSP are in their boxes, and not stored in smaller packs. So clearly, even with the advances in tech happening, both devices are able to hit the market in much the same shape as they do in our own time. Devices that, in theory, might be less tech advanced against what the competition was otherwise able to put out (since smarter mobile phones are more mass market in that timeline). But there is more points raised by this. The main reason the PSP existed is because Sony wanted to steal the thunder of Nintendo in our timeline. Due to the events around the development of the SNES CD addon, Sony used this to fuel their anger and listened to the guy telling them to make a console (who later got to be their CEO). So the question is if Nintendo and Sony had been fated to follow the same path that lead to the creation of both handheld consoles at that point in time? Or is there more going on? It is a silly, but fun element of working out how the worldbuilding might have gone with the setting.

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I Would Say that "For All Mankind" be "Unofficial Prequel" to The Awesome "The Expanse" xd

Love this show

Thanks for making this video. I really enjoyed binging this show and I’m happy they’re working on a new season!

I bloody love For All Mankind!!!

Absolutely Love this show!

You forgot to mention that in 1981 Poland goverment did not declared Martial Law, hence intervention of Soviets was needed. They took over county and with it all coal and steelworks production centers that was there, so economy and capabilities of producing more material for space flight was increased by large margin.

It's a Mobile Suit Gundam prequel guys

Even though lack of technology was always given as the reason as 'why not...' it was always the lack of will. There was nothing we couldn't have done back then, it would have just been bulkier. We could build Babylon 5 right now if we came together as a race and got it done. There is nothing on that station we can't do right now.

I love this channel.

l live in Latvia, a country whose citizens were in the process of being displaced by Russians during the Soviet era. Latvia as a nation simply would not exist in this timeline. So no, I'm very grateful that isn't the universe we inhabit.

In THIS show's timeline a LOT of things happen differently...and I'd likely have gone to work for a private space company! I like it there!

Love that show!

I've heard it described as a "spiritual predecessor" to Star Trek as opposed to a literal one. Asking the question of how you get to the sort of universe depicted in those shows. There are some really strong nods to this, namely the increasingly warm ties between the US and USSR paralleling their implied quasi-merger in TOS (much more evident from interviews with those involved). Honestly my guess is this is largely why the USSR was kept around. My money is on something like that unfolding in the remaining 3 planned seasons - knowing RDM and hints dropped so far, probably the last season and with the long-rumored "Starship" as a focal point. But that's just my speculation.

Bought the first season and now I'm HOOKED!!!

Great video. FAM is easily up there with the best sci-fi shows of this century.

The For all Mankind easter egg in The Expanse more has to do with the Expanse showrunner being a writer for season 1 of FAM.

YES!

That's really helpful. :) (I've only gotten to see scattered episodes at a friend's house so it's a little hard to keep up. :) )

Got about 1/3 of the way through before I realized I should probably watch this! Didn't even know about it, and it has Joel Kinneman who is a favorite of mine.

Great video. I don't like supporting Apple, but I might get this service just to watch this series.

This seems more like a time travelers check list then a show recap.

I think Naren Shankar works on both shows, FAM and The Expanse

I love this show!! But, In the first season the writers were dedicated to an element of realism. It was very believable. However, by season 2, they made a lot of decisions that could never happen such as sending a space shuttle to the moon or solving nuclear fusion. I was disappointed, but I'm over it. 10/10 would recommend this show.

22:42 I know everything space related gets lumped in with Musk. However, the character "Dev Ayesa" has a lot more in common with "Steve Jobs" than Elon Musk. Which makes sense, since this series is made by Apple.

Hi Bob.

I love this show.

I would love to live in for all mankind world! For All Mankind and The Expanse are my favortie shows of all time, and although we lost The Expanse I hope For All Mankind keep making seasons well into the future! It might not be a prequel but it sure damn could be a spiritual successor.

Some political developments in the show seem more sci-fi than nuclear fusion, nuclear drives or Mars colony in 2003, probably the greatest s-f show right now

I mean Dev seems to be an actually intelligent human being and not someone who relies exclusively on people interviewing him never asking hard questions so, yeah the parallels aren’t really that strong

OR is like ima stand by a bridge it will look cool ... it did

CyberEd. I still believe.

I could certainly see it as a prequel to "The Expanse" but not Star Trek...well, in the mirror universe perhaps. OK, now I'm confused

I liked the series

The FAM timeline is so advanced they got eight years of Reagan over with by 1984 😂

The major reason i keep my apple sub. I can only access it on my pc and living room smart tv lol. I like space dramas, so im biased af.

The Beatles get back together in 1975. I'm all in.

I’m a socalist I would live in that universe

As someone watching the show for the first time with my gfs, and we haven't yet gotten past Season 2 Episode 2, thanks for the spoiler warning!

It's utterly unbelievable. There is no way, even had the designer lived, that the N1 would have been anything other than a bomb on the launch pad. Period. I can't get enough suspension of disbelief to bother trying to watch that show.

The artificial gravity, rotating part of the Helios spacecraft cannot be done in space as depicted in the film. If this rotating part is placed in the middle of the spaceship so that the two parts are equal in weight, then it can work. Otherwise this is a great series.

Is a great show. I just hate those pesky little details that mess with inmersion on the alternative timeline. I think if they ever need to sell DVDs a little post can solve much of it. I still recommend this show. Great space drama.

Dad talked out the Russians being first into space, the with a dog and lastly with a man and later a women, while the word seemly flounded, with failure after tradgety... We earnt the moon that hard way but having won, we gave up. What the show does is focuses on the race, sometimes loosing isnt being second, its not trying, giving up or focusing on the wrong thing like being first which while, well and good, isnt the same as exporation, discovery and advancements!

16:45 Once again electric cars have always been a thing, it's never been a lack of technology. The oil industry and the car industry kept them down because they had a monied interest in doing it. Electric cars are much simpler than internal combustion and require less maintainance.

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K holy crap was that Grant MacEwan????

Currently Apple has the best sci-fi show out now, For All Mankind. They also have the worst sci-fi on tv, Invasion.

Love that show, first season was awesome, others are still good to me, but quality is going down

They were going to blow the moon 😅

That was such a great series first season, good second season... and then sorry I wasn't able to watch what they did with it :/ Such a shame. Premise was just wonderful. But by the time they get to modern times it makes no sense with all the same characters still playing major roles in space race.

As a German I officially call this show crap since it keeps my country divided until at least. 2003😢😡

I am greek. greece be communist in that timeline make a lot of sense

An amazing series, unfortunately the plot quality and repetitive characters soured it up.

Very close to our reality, For All Mankind is the most realistic scifi ever produced in my opinion.

Can you make a for all mankind media and gaming in this scenario video

Progress is good!

Loved this series. Seems like it now coming to pass under Putin

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When looking at history, NASA had a worse safety record.

Awesome. Now, please leave.

I love Star Trek very much especially the 90s-early 00s. DS9 is my favorite. BUT the problem is that collectivist economics do not work and never have. I may be a broken record but Confucius and Mencius wrote in China 2500-2400 years ago about the need for individuals to have low tax burdens and earn profit for themselves and their immediate families. Why? Because individualism produces the most wealth and innovation. The only reason communism, utopianism, and other left wing ideas spread is due to the force and brutality of those with power. That's why I think "world peace," is quite evil as a concept. Asimov and Rodenberry with "Foundation and Star Trek" were wrong, meanwhile Frank Herbert and "Dune" were right.

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I am a Communist, so I would definitely want to live in that world.

Why does this guy presume we need him to explain the show to us? People who love sci-fi are usually intelligent.

I like the show, but it could be better. NASA didn't have segregated bathrooms, ever. Black people were not cannon fodder in the Vietnam war and I seriously doubt that white soldiers danced around in KKK attire waving Confederate flags when MLK was assassinated. And the witch hunt on lgtbq community is another laughable aspect of the show, so far. I'm half way through season 2. I love the timeline and premise of the show I just wish the writers would leave politics out of it.

I love this show.

Hi Bob!